Solar lard

Today I made a batch of lard using the solar oven. The basic steps are:

+ Buy some leaf lard from Rootabaga Country Farm at the Farmers’ Market.
+ Chop it up / grind it. (Optional: thank Cam for cleaning up the fine mist of lard particles that inevitably gets all over everything in the kitchen.)
+ Put it in a pot, and put the pot in the solar oven.
+ Periodically point the solar oven at the sun to maintain temperature.
+ A few hours later, strain the cracklin’s out of the rendered fat, and let it cool into lard.
+ Make all manner of deliciousness using homemade pure lard instead of shortening or hydrogenated supermarket lard.